Stena Blue Sky tanker to deliver Sakhalin-2 LNG
Sakhalin Energy, the Sakhalin-2 project operator has chartered the Swedish tanker Stena Blue Sky of 145000cbm capacity to transport LNG to customers, RIA Novosti reports.
On September 6, 2011 the LNG laden ship set off from Prigorodnoye port to China. The LNG carrier is expected to return in late September.
The 72000dwt Stena Blue Sky is owned by Swedish company Stena Bulk.
The $20bn Sakhalin-2 project is managed and operated by Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy). Gazprom holds a 50% (+1) stake in the JV, Shell – 27.5%, Mitsui – 12.5% and Mitsubishi - 10%.
The project includes development of the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye natural gas field offshore Sakhalin Island in the Okhotsk Sea. The LNG plant of Sakhalin Energy was launched in February 2009. The facility’s projected capacity is 9.6 million tons a year, or 5 percent of global LNG production.